Boris Karloff meets Charles Whitman
SPOILERS AHEAD “Targets” is one of those movies I’ve been curious about for decades but never gotten round to watching. Until last week, when I got round to watching it… “Targets” is noteworthy for two reasons. First, it was Peter Bogdanovich’s first film as director and, second, it was one of Boris Karloff’s last films […]
Boris Karloff Meets Jack Nicholson
“The Terror” is a terrible, terrible movie, made by Roger Corman only to squeeze some more money out of the sets for “The Haunted Palace” before he sent them to the knacker’s yard. Not surprisingly the only good thing about this mess is the sets, though I must admit the cinematography is also quite adequate. […]
Beware The Giant Snail People
SPOILERS AHEAD A couple of years ago, at around the time that Redd Inc. came out, I mysteriously lost interest in horror movies. For about three decades horror had been my favorite genre and suddenly I didn’t care anymore. I still don’t know what happened, It’s not as if I decided horror movies were evil […]
Supes And Bats In “My Kid Cousin”
Spoilers ahead : If you haven’t seen it, don’t read it. One might think that an animated movie about the origin of Supergirl would be titled “The Origin of Supergirl” or “Heeere’s Supergirl” or even the above bit about the kid cousin. But no, for some strange reason the people at DC called it Apocalypse. […]
Sly And Arnie Go Stir Crazy
Spoilers ahead – if you haven’t seen the movie Escape Plan, you probably shouldn’t read this. Like all civilized and discerning people, I have long awaited the day when Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger would co-star in an action movie. Not like the Expendables movies, in which Arnie is just the monkey to Sly’s organ […]
Naked Demon Woman on the Loose !
For the last few months I have been caught up in a bizarre and ongoing attempt to write an album of unpleasantly snarky political songs. Originally the album was going to be symphonic metal (specifically Within Temptation) crossed with early Danzig, but I don’t have the big, butch voice required for that kind of thing […]
Slit-Mouthed Woman On the Loose!
Despite being something of a rationalist, I have long had an interest in the paranormal. It’s mostly bullshit, of course, but it’s entertaining bullshit and isn’t that what matters? Anyway, once in a while I get the urge to write something about ghosts and ghoulies and the like, and this seems as good a place […]
Invasion 2.0
In “Tomorrow, When The War Began” Australia gets invaded by a coalition of the willing, er… I mean a coalition of countries that want to get their hands on our resources. In other words, Australia becomes “Iraq III : The Irony.” The countries are Asian, but then what else would they be in this part […]